Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Crimes

Con Artists 10 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Swindlers and impostors whose lies hide a darker crime the detectives have to uncover.

Season 3 · Episode 20
Greed

Aired April 26, 2002 · Rape, attempted murder and fraud

A rich widow is raped and left for dead in her townhouse, and a planted frame-up against a locksmith hides a pair of Canadian con artists who married their victims.
Season 7 · Episode 2
Design

Aired September 27, 2005 · Fraud

A pregnant woman’s rape case against a rich scientist collapses into a hunt for her body, then for the truth about her baby and the men she targeted.
Season 12 · Episode 19
Bombshell

Aired March 23, 2011 · Stabbing, fraud and murder

The stabbing of a seemingly ordinary executive leads Benson and Stabler undercover at a sex club, where a pair of grifters prey on lonely married men.
Season 13 · Episode 7
Russian Brides

Aired November 9, 2011 · Rape and murder; extortion

A woman found mutilated beyond recognition leads SVU to a Russian mobster who uses a mail-order bride site to fleece lonely men, and Cragen goes undercover to catch him.
Season 13 · Episode 18
Valentine's Day

Aired April 18, 2012 · False report / staged kidnapping

A wife’s rape and kidnapping, witnessed by her husband over a video chat, turns into a case against the supposed victim.
Season 18 · Episode 3
Imposter

Aired October 5, 2016 · Rape by deception

A security guard who poses as a college admissions director to seduce anxious mothers is charged with rape, testing whether sex obtained by fraud is a crime in New York.
Season 18 · Episode 18
Spellbound

Aired May 10, 2017 · Rape

A publicist says a celebrity healer raped her at his ayahuasca retreat although she took no drugs, and SVU sets out to prove he hypnotized her.
Season 19 · Episode 5
Complicated

Aired October 25, 2017 · Impersonation and a child’s death

A young woman found in Central Park is taken for a girl kidnapped ten years earlier, and the detectives come to doubt both her story and the missing girl’s family.
Season 20 · Episode 10
Alta Kockers

Aired November 29, 2018 · Murder

The murder of a teenage memoirist exposes a literary hoax and leads SVU to two reclusive elderly brothers, their mother’s frozen body and a decades-old secret.
Season 27 · Episode 5
Feed the Craving

Aired October 23, 2025 · Sexual abuse and fraud

A doula’s client who says she is in labor with a stillborn baby conceived in a rape is abducted, then turns out never to have been pregnant, and the squad finds dozens of doulas she deceived.

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